We've been very bad so far at keeping this blog up to date - we'll try harder once we get to Nepal, we promise!

Today was my last day in the office at Volunteering Highland until 4th May. Thanks very much to everyone for the pressie and the card, along with all the support they've shown for this trip and helping to raise funds for Nepal Orphans Home.

There's a final fundraiser being organised by The Florians this Saturday (27th Feb) - An Evening with the Musicals - which involves much audience participation in the form of singing your lungs out to showtunes - should be a blast! Thanks to everyone's kindness and enthusiasm it looks as if by the time we leave we'll have raised around £1,400 which is fantastic. It'll go a long way in Nepal.

All of our injections are up to date, so nobody will be sticking needles in either of us for a while, we hope. I picked up the tickets from the Travel Agent on Saturday so must now make sure to keep them in a very safe place, and then remember where that very safe place is when I need them on Monday morning. Arrangements have been made for the cats to have a new home while we're away, so hopefully they'll be fine and won't think we've abandoned them and are never coming back. The next task will be the packing....

If we get chance, we'll post some more while we're dangling around at Heathrow waiting for the plane on Monday. If not, we'll try to get some photos and information on shortly after we arrive in Kathmandu.

Keep your fingers crossed we're not under 3 feet of snow over the weekend!

Ann
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There are now only 5 weeks until we leave and we have had our injections. We went to Dingwall doctors surgery to get them done. The first injection was in my left arm that was the typhoid. In the right arm I had Hepatitis A & B (in one injection). Mum had the same but she also had another injection in her left arm for polio/tetanus/diptheria. We looked like pincushions!

We have been sending and getting emails from Nepal Orphans Home about when we are arriving and what type of things to take with us. Emma, who works for Nepal Orphans Home, is going to meet us at the airport.

If you look at the Nepal Orphans Home website (www.nepalorphanshome.com) you will find a news update from December 10. About halfway down the update there are pictures of a new house, with girls who have been rescued from slavery. This is the house that we will be staying in when we are in Nepal.

We are now planning two more fundraising events before we go. Hopefully there will be a jumble sale and coffee morning in Dingwall, and The Florians in Inverness have offered to put on a musical show to raise money. We will let everyone know dates once these are organised.

Alison :)

Eight weeks to go!

There are eight weeks to go next Monday until we leave to go to Nepal and we're really excited. We are going to volunteer with Nepal Orphans Home in Katmhandu for two months. We will be helping to look after 122 children aged five upwards. We will be staying in a house of 22 girls while we are there.

We leave on the first of March and fly to London. Then we get on another plane to Delhi in India. Finally we fly from Delhi to Katmhandu in Nepal. The whole journey from leaving home to arriving in Nepal will take about 24 hours. We will keep you posted along the way!

Alison :)